Lesson A TECHNOLOGY INTEGRATION FOR MEANINGFUL CLASSROOM USE Daily Lesson GAME Plan Lesson Title: Montezuma's Revenge and Other Myths of the Spanish Conquest of the Aztecs Related Lessons: Canadian history Grade Level: 6th Unit: Latin American history GOALS: Students investigate and answer the question How did Cortez conquer the Aztecs? Content Standards: SS6H1 The student will describe the impact of European contact on Latin America. ISTE NETS-S _x_ Creativity and innovation _x_ Critical thinking, problem solving, & decision-making x Communication and collaboration Digital citizenship __ xResearch and information fluency _x_ Technology operations and concepts Instructional Objective(s): Students should explain the encounter between Montezuma/Aztecs and Cortes/ Spanish conquistadors. Students should be able to explain/describe/discuss/evaluate… * The consequences of the conflict. * The role Montezuma and Cortes played in this encounter. * The consequences of the conflict. ACTION Before-Class Preparation Students and the teacher will create a video discussing knowledge they re aware of concerning the topic During Class Time Instructional Activities Materials and Resources Classes meet for a 90 minute block of time three times a week.On Monday and Wednesday the students will work on their assignments.On Friday, we will preview to fine tune the week's lesson
Complete the K section of KWL chart about the ancient Aztec civilization and the Spanish Empire of the 14th and 15th century
View a short video introducing the Aztec civilization and afterwards provide information for the L section
Take notes while watching video clips about Cortes conquering the Aztecs and establishing a Spanish empire in Mexico and afterwards provide information for the L section
View a short teacher -created video discussing cultural conflicts
View a map to trace the route taken by Cortez
Research the motivation behind the expansion of the Spanish Empire
Work in four stations to learn about the Aztec culture
Complete a Venn diagram comparing the conquest of other Native American groups of MesoAmerica
Read an account of the first meeting between Cortez and King Montezuma
Complete a graphic organizer detailing the causes of the Aztecs conquest
Write an essay answering the question: How did Cortez conquer the Aztecs?
Learning buddies Extended Time Varied supplemental materials Walking Tour Anticipation guide
Primary Source Cards Hands-onWorksheet Walking Tour Envoy
Adaptive Learning Environments Model Anticipation Guide Telling boards
Open ended questions Independent practice Analogy Brain teaser
Back-Up Plan: Groups will be provided hard copies of class sets of materials to read in greater details. EVALUATION Lesson Reflections and Notes: Several of the strategies provided can and will be used to gauge students’ understanding of the content.
TECHNOLOGY INTEGRATION FOR MEANINGFUL CLASSROOM USE
Daily Lesson GAME Plan
Lesson Title: Montezuma's Revenge and Other Myths of the Spanish Conquest of the Aztecs
Related Lessons: Canadian history
Grade Level: 6th
Unit: Latin American history
GOALS: Students investigate and answer the question How did Cortez conquer the Aztecs?
Content Standards: SS6H1 The student will describe the impact of European contact on Latin America.
ISTE NETS-S
_x_ Creativity and innovation _x_ Critical thinking, problem solving, & decision-making
x Communication and collaboration Digital citizenship
__ xResearch and information fluency _x_ Technology operations and concepts
Instructional Objective(s):
Students should explain the encounter between Montezuma/Aztecs and Cortes/ Spanish conquistadors.
Students should be able to explain/describe/discuss/evaluate…
* The consequences of the conflict.
* The role Montezuma and Cortes played in this encounter.
* The consequences of the conflict.
ACTION
Before-Class Preparation
Students and the teacher will create a video discussing knowledge they re aware of concerning the topic
During Class
Time Instructional Activities Materials and Resources
Classes meet for a 90 minute block of time three times a week.On Monday and Wednesday the students will work on their assignments.On Friday, we will preview to fine tune the week's lesson
- Complete the K section of KWL chart about the ancient Aztec civilization and the Spanish Empire of the 14th and 15th century
- View a short video introducing the Aztec civilization and afterwards provide information for the L section
- Take notes while watching video clips about Cortes conquering the Aztecs and establishing a Spanish empire in Mexico and afterwards provide information for the L section
- View a short teacher -created video discussing cultural conflicts
- View a map to trace the route taken by Cortez
- Research the motivation behind the expansion of the Spanish Empire
- Work in four stations to learn about the Aztec culture
- Complete a Venn diagram comparing the conquest of other Native American groups of MesoAmerica
- Read an account of the first meeting between Cortez and King Montezuma
- Complete a graphic organizer detailing the causes of the Aztecs conquest
- Write an essay answering the question: How did Cortez conquer the Aztecs?
The multiple options are provided to structure tier assignments for the students.Aztec information to assist students will accessed from the links http://http//www.newberry.org/aztecs/section_2_home.html , http://http//www.wsu.edu/~dee/CIVAMRCA/AZTECS.HTM , and http://http//www.ucalgary.ca/applied_history/tutor/eurvoya/aztec.html[[http://http//www.ucalgary.ca/applied_history/tutor/eurvoya/aztec.htmlLinks|Links]]
Students will be provided training with web 2.0 tools which will help them do remarkable things such as create videos, and provide text to speech for powerpoint. The resources can be found at the following links
http://www.flickr.com/
https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin?service=writely&passive=1209600&continue=http://docs.google.com/&followup=http://docs.google.com/<mpl=homepage
http://www.spinscape.com/
http://text-to-speech.imtranslator.net/
http://animoto.com/
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/PhotoStory/default.mspx
http://www.go2web20.net/
Videos for lesson
cortez
Inca civilization
conquistador
Incas
maya
MesoAmericans
Notes
MONITOR
Ongoing Assessment(s):
http://pblinstructionalunit.wikispaces.com/file/view/rubric_differentiated.pdf
Accomodations and Extensions:
Groups will be provided hard copies of class sets of materials to read in greater details.
EVALUATION
Lesson Reflections and Notes:
Several of the strategies provided can and will be used to gauge students’ understanding of the content.